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Most dev tools are not yet capable of identifying the specific lines of code that need to be changed, and unearthing that information is hard cognitive work. While some tools can help improve productivity by suggesting what code to write, software developers still have to use their brains to add new features, fix bugs, implement […]
A technical paper co-authored by current and former Phase Change research scientists, and presented at the 2021 annual ICSME event, won a Distinguished Paper Award from the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE). The paper, “Contemporary COBOL: Developers’ Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location,” was co-authored by current Phase Change Senior Research […]
Phase Change President Steve Brothers recently authored a contributed article for Nextgov.com about how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help governments deal with the mainframe-developers skills shortage and continue to maintain critical legacy systems. The article, How AI Can Help with Critical Government System Maintenance Needs, describes how we should change the current industry strategy […]
The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) 2021 accepted a technical paper authored by current and former Phase Change research scientists for presentation at its 37th annual event in Luxembourg City, Great Duchy of Luxembourg, September 27 – October 1. The paper, “Contemporary COBOL: Developers’ Perspectives on Defects and Defect Location,” was co-authored […]
A May 28 article published by TechRadar pro, and written by Phase Change President Steve Brothers, explains how the well-reported “COBOL skills shortage” is not really a fundamental problem for enterprises that rely on mainframe systems. The real challenge is application knowledge. Developers can learn COBOL in less than 6 months. What they can’t learn […]
The so-called “COBOL Skills Shortage” is compelling many organizations to impetuously hire and train programmers to maintain, support, and attempt to modernize their COBOL systems. But understanding how to write COBOL is not enough — developers have to comprehend what an application actually does and how code changes can impact the system as a whole […]
